Integrity Guard: Trust What You Measure

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Since AI tools have become widely accessible to candidates, talent teams have been under pressure to protect the accuracy and fairness of their hiring decisions. Integrity Guard helps TA teams ensure each result reflects genuine candidate ability, strengthening trust, reducing risk, and giving recruiters a more reliable data to make confident hiring decisions. to

The Problem We’re Solving and Why This Matters

Online assessments are now a core part of hiring. They help teams move faster, reach more candidates, and make decisions based on evidence rather than instinct. But with the of advanced AI tools, there’s a new challenge: how do you know the results reflect a candidate’s own ability rather than external help?

Recruiters are left asking:

• Can we trust that this score reflects real ability?

• Is the process fair for every candidate?

• How do we protect integrity without making candidates feel policed or punished?

These concerns directly impact employer brand, compliance, and the quality of hire. Candidates expect transparency and fairness, . organisations need accuracy and trust, and talent need to protect integrity without drowning in manual checks.

Integrity Guard was built to meet all these expectations. It supports fair and transparent decision-making, and gives hiring teams the confidence to move forward.  

Introducing Integrity Guard

A built-in integrity layer for fair, transparent, and privacy-conscious assessment.

Integrity Guard is Sova’s new proctoring solution designed to discreetly protect the assessment process across identity, behaviour, and content authenticity. It gives recruiters clear insight into potential integrity incidents, supporting better hiring decisions, and reducing the manual effort typically required to validate candidate results.

Most importantly, it helps ensure every candidate is assessed on a fair and consistent playing field.

Key Benefits

• Make fairer, more confident hiring decisions
  Ensure that candidate responses reflect real capability, not external assistance.

• Protect your employer brand with ethical, transparent proctoring
  Show candidates that integrity matters, without compromising their privacy.

• Reduce manual review and speed up hiring
  Automated monitoring removes the need for time-consuming authenticity checks.

• Stay compliant in a fast-changing digital landscape
  Built with data protection and candidate experience at the core.

• Strengthen trust across hiring stakeholders
  Give hiring managers, leadership, and audit teams clearer insight into assessment integrity.

How It Works

Integrity Guard quietly monitors key indicators that signal when an assessment may not reflect genuine candidate effort, such as unusual device activity, navigation behaviour, or response patterns.

Rather than intrusive surveillance, the system uses light-touch, privacy-conscious signals to flag anomalies. These signals are summarised in the Results Dashboard via a simple shield indicator, giving recruiters immediate clarity on candidates who may require additional review.

Use Cases

High-volume recruitment

Integrity Guard helps talent teams maintain assessment integrity at scale by automatically flagging suspicious activity,  supporting consistent, reliable results even when thousands of candidates complete assessments remotely.

Assessment centres moving online

With more organisations shifting previously supervised assessments into virtual formats, Integrity Guard provides an equitable, privacy-conscious way to maintain rigour without relying on intrusive monitoring.

Regulated or risk-sensitive roles

When hiring for positions that carry a high level of trust, like public sector, governance, or compliance roles, additional safeguards help ensure every candidate is assessed fairly and without external interference.

Graduate and early-career hiring

Digitally native candidates are more likely to experiment with AI tools. Integrity Guard helps ensure that all candidates are assessed fairly, supporting transparent selection processes and stronger trust in outcomes.

What Makes This Different

Science-led and experience-informed

Built by Sova’s assessment and behavioural science experts, Integrity Guard is designed to protect authenticity without compromising the validity or fairness of the evaluation process.

A genuinely candidate-first approach

Instead of intrusive surveillance, Integrity Guard uses lightweight, privacy-conscious signals to maintain trust and transparency, — reflecting Sova’s commitment to fair assessment experiences.

Seamlessly integrated into the Sova workflow

Integrity insights surface directly within the Results Dashboard, requiring no extra tools, logins, or operational complexity. Teams can review incidents with a simple shield indicator and optional filtering.

Built around Sova’s product strategy

Integrity Guard enhances the core pillars of Sova’s platform:

• assessment: more credible results

• science: improved reliability and validity

• experience: transparent, user-friendly monitoring

• data: richer insights into assessment behaviour
  

Evolving with the future of work and AI

Because the assessment landscape continues to change, Integrity Guard is designed as a long-term foundation, — with upcoming enhancements like copy-paste tracking, watermarking, plagiarism checks, and deeper behavioural insights.

What’s Coming Next

Integrity Guard is only the beginning. Over the coming releases, we’re expanding the suite to include:

• Copy-paste detection

• Plagiarism checks for free-text responses

• Content watermarking to track leaks

• Advanced response pattern analysis

• Enhanced timelines of candidate activity

• Customisable alert thresholds and confidence scoring

These enhancements will deepen insight without compromising fairness or the candidate experience, keeping your processes aligned to the rapidly evolving hiring landscape.

Want to activate Integrity Guard for your assessments?

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Reach out to your Sova Account Manager or Customer Success contact today.

Or explore the full setup in our Support Guide to see how it fits seamlessly into your workflow.